24 May, 2017
Today, CIBC raised its price target on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) to $140.00 per share. Finally, TheStreet raised Alibaba Group Holding from a "c" rating to a "b-" rating in a research report on Thursday, January 26th. Finally, Standpoint Research lowered Alibaba Group Holding from a buy rating to a reduce rating in a research report on Thursday, April 20th. USS Investment Management Ltd increased its stake in shares of Alibaba Group Holding by 5.4% in the third quarter.
If we look at stock performance in last active day trading, we see that stock has moved gained 0.87% to end the day at $3.46. Important factors to focus when evaluating a stock's present and future value are the 52 week price high and low levels.
The Chinese company, which is targeting news business lines such as cloud computing, big data, entertainment and offline retail as it expands beyond e-commerce, said the share repurchase scheme would replace its existing buyback program.
Considering the fact that the $130.00 strike represents an approximate 4% premium to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the covered call contract would expire worthless, in which case the investor would keep both their shares of stock and the premium collected. Buy rating has been given by 0 analysts to the company stock whereas no analyst given UNDERPERFORM rating to stock and 3 analysts given HOLD rating. Comparatively, BABA posted earnings of $5.66 per share in the same quarter, a year earlier. HSBC Holdings plc reissued a "buy" rating and set a $145.00 target price (up previously from $125.00) on shares of Alibaba Group Holding in a research note on Monday. While it's Return on Investment (ROI) value is 7.2%.
The High Revenue estimate is predicted as 6.71 Billion, while the Low Revenue Estimate prediction stands at 6.23 Billion.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited closed its last trading session at $121.27 with the gain of 1.61%.
While looking at the Stock's Performance, Alibaba Group Holding Limited now shows a Weekly Performance of 2.39%, where Monthly Performance is 9.08%, Quarterly performance is 22.58%, 6 Months performance is 32.69% and yearly performance percentage is 57.33%. Ariose Capital Management Ltd bought a new stake in shares of Alibaba Group Holding during the third quarter valued at about $47,830,000. The firm has a market cap of $315.62 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 50.67 and a beta of 2.73. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.47 EPS.
Analysts are also projecting an Average Revenue Estimate for Alibaba Group Holding Limited as $15000 in the Current Quarter.
The company reported an impressive total revenue of 56.59 Billion in the last fiscal year. Pacific Crest initiated coverage on shares of Alibaba Group Holding in a research note on Wednesday, March 22nd. Wall Street is only getting more bullish on the stock, with 38 of analysts who cover BABA having a buy-equivalent rating.
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Several brokerages have recently issued reports on BABA. Macquarie Research upgraded the shares of BABA in report on Friday, August 12 to "Outperform" rating. Alibaba Group Holding has a consensus rating of "Buy" and a consensus target price of $129.29.
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